Publications

Research Papers & Publications

MIRAGE: A Benchmark for Multimodal Information-Seeking and Reasoning in Agricultural Expert-Guided Conversations

2025
Vardhan Dongre, Chi Gui, Shubham Garg, Hooshang Nayyeri, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Vikram S. Adve
arXiv preprint
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A Desideratum for Conversational Agents: Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions

2025
Emre Can Acikgoz, Cheng Qian, Hongru Wang, Vardhan Dongre, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
arXiv preprint
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Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems

2025
Mert İnan, Anthony Sicilia, Suvodip Dey, Vardhan Dongre, Tejas Srinivasan, Jesse Thomason, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Malihe Alikhani
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents

2024
Vardhan Dongre, Xiaocheng Yang, Emre Can Acikgoz, Suvodip Dey, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (Oral)
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Simulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational-AI

2024
Daniel Philipov, Vardhan Dongre, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
NeurIPS Workshop on Open-World Agents
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From Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on the Generalization of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents

2024
Nalin Tiwary*, Vardhan Dongre*, Sanil Arun Chawla, Ashwin Lamani, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
NeurIPS Workshop on Open-World Agents
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Evaluating Uncertainty Quantification approaches for Neural PDEs in scientific applications

2023
Vardhan Dongre, Gurpreet Singh Hora
NeurIPS AI4Science, DLDEIII
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